Grow your business with a clear vision of your future
Growing and developing your business requires a clear vision that everyone in your team can easily understand, engage with and implement. Our Crackerjack Visioning Process™ for Teams combines interactive visioning workshops and rich picture illustrations to provide you and your team with a collaborative approach to building and implementing your vision. To find out more about this impactful and engaging way of sharing your vision with your people, teams, partners and customers, click here or contact us using the form below. #businessvision #vision #visioning #growth #implement #visualthinking #richpicture #illustration #creativity #idea #innovation
Does your organisation need a Chief Visionary Officer (CVO)?
What is a CVO?
If you’re a new, existing and/or growing organisation, having a clear vision is vital in enabling your people to focus their efforts on the activities and innovations that will enable the vision to be achieved. A CVO is focussed on ensuring this happens as effectively as possible.
The CVO typically plays a strategic role in an organisation by focusing on long-term goals and innovation. Their purpose is to:
Define and communicate a compelling vision: CVOs articulate a clear and inspiring vision for the company’s future, aligning it with the organisation’s mission and values.
Drive innovation: They lead efforts to identify and explore new opportunities, technologies and market trends that can help the company stay ahead of the competition.
Foster creativity: CVOs encourage a culture of innovation and creativity within the organisation, often by promoting collaboration and idea generation.
Guide strategic planning: They work closely with other executives and teams to develop strategic plans that support the long-term vision, ensuring the company’s growth and sustainability.
Engage external stakeholders: CVOs may also engage with external stakeholders, such as customers, partners, and investors, to gather insights and feedback that inform the company’s vision and strategy.
A CVO helps steer the company towards its future goals by envisioning new possibilities and ensuring the organisation remains adaptable and forward-thinking.
Fractional CVOs
If you like the idea of a CVO for your organisation, but are thinking that employing a CVO would be too expensive, hiring a ‘Fractional CVO’ may be the answer you are looking for.
Fractional CVOs can be hired on a part-time or consulting basis (rather than being a full-time employee of the organisation), which can be particularly beneficial for smaller companies or startups that may not have the resources to employ a full-time role.
In this short video, I share my thoughts and experiences of how visual thinking and rich pictures can help drive breakthrough thinking, facilitate organisational discussions and even help change organisational cultures.
We spent the day developing and exploring their exciting future vision along with identifying the values, behaviours and activities that will help them achieve it. We even had an unexpected online participant due to transport issues – turned into a hybrid workshop!
Next step: creating a rich picture of the Pipster Soutions vision!
Lovely start to the day here at my clients office in the Wiltshire countryside – just started the visioning workshop I’m running and the clients team are out on a scavenger hunt!
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Collaboratively working with your people to create or renew the vision and values of your organisation can be one of the most valuable activities you can undertake as a leader.
Whether you are an SME, charity, non-profit or a large corporate, collaborative visioning helps your teams understand the purpose and aims of your organisation and gives clarity on the activities they can undertake to develop and/or grow your organisation.
Our Vision and Values Workshop provides a unique three stage approach to developing your vision and values:
STAGE 1: A highly visual and interactive 1 day workshop exploring the vision and values of your organisation. The day also includes opportunity to identify the practical steps and activities needed to achieve your vision.
STAGE 2: The creation of a rich picture of your vision that everyone can easily understand, discuss and engage with across you organisation. This becomes the map and guide to the achievement of your vision.
STAGE 3: A follow-up review session to measure progress towards achieving your vision (6 or 12 months after the initial workshop).
To find out more and book your workshop and hear from one of our clients about their experience as a CEO of the visioning process click on the image below:
Interested in learning more about the benefits visual thinking can bring to your organisation (whether a large corporate or an SME)?
Take a look at Issue 1 of the Visual Thinking Times below. This issue uses feedback from my Crackerjack Visual Thinking clients to help illustrate how using visual thinking can create real results and engagement (including saving £100k’s!).
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You can also visit our website to learn more about my work or contact us with any questions you may have.
Delighted to welcome our new client: Pipster Solutions!
Crackerjack is delighted to welcome our new client Pipster Solutions!
We’ll be working with the team at Pipster Solutions later this month and look forward to learning more about how they build great relationships with their clients to create winning bids for work in the highways sector.
Latest client feedback from Eastlight Community Homes
Really pleased to have received the following client feedback from Lydia at Eastlight Homes about a whiteboard animation we’ve created for their AGM:
John has produced the animation summarising our Financial Statements to be played as part of Eastlight’s AGM two years in a row. He’s incredibly easy to work with, quick, efficient, and friendly. He worked with the concepts we provided and communicated complex information in a way that’s creative, engaging, and easy to digest – exactly what we needed. Thank you, John.
Lydia Stockdale
Communications & External Affairs Director
